Zero Viruses In 2005?

Zero Viruses In 2005?
Kelly Martin, 2004-12-16

It's the time of year to reflect on the good security choices you've made over the year, the defense-in-depth strategy that you've decided to follow, and plan for your response to future threats and virus outbreaks.

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Zero Viruses In 2005? 2004-12-19
Todd Knarr

I think desktop management systems might not be the best goal. For example, working at Flying J, desktop management for security was a non-issue. We had X terminals with no local storage. Applications we needed were stored on and ran on the main servers. The admins updated the software on the server...

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Zero Viruses In 2005? 2004-12-19
Anonymous

"If you can agree that the browser is now a critical client application in your environment, then why are you still tied to a single operating system, platform or vendor?"

Er, um, perhaps to control costs? While the article implies it's not okay to invest man-hours in fighting the bad guy, this ...

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Zero Viruses In 2005? 2004-12-21
Anonymous

the article goes on about cost saving. yet he proposes one of the most expensive things to support, use multiple platform vendors arrrrrrrrgh, what a support and maintenance nightmare not to mention cost....

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Zero Viruses In 2005? 2004-12-22
Marukka

Supporting multiple desktop hardware platforms and OSes isnt really all that hard, all you need is competent personell. Security patch updating can be trivial with utiltities like Altiris Deployment\Inventory Solutions, or if you have the money, their Patch Management. As far as OS X goes you could ...

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